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Video of rare West African lion cubs sparks hope for the population

Video of rare West African lion cubs sparks hope for the...

New video of a West African lioness and her three cubs is exciting news for conservation as it sparks hope for the recovery of...
Kenyan science interns turn Lake Victoria’s fish waste into oil and flowers

Kenyan science interns turn Lake Victoria’s fish waste into oil and...

Fish processing on Lake Victoria in Kenya generates tons of waste that harms the environment and leads to oxygen depletion and algal blooms...
Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections

Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections

A new bill under debate in Peru’s congress seeks to reevaluate the existence of every Indigenous reserve for isolated peoples to determine whether to...
Can gaming solve a puzzle for camera trap conservationists? (commentary)

Can gaming solve a puzzle for camera trap conservationists? (commentary)

Artificial intelligence programs for camera trap image recognition have become quite good at identifying common wildlife, but they struggle with rare animals.Before AI can...
Brazil tackles illegal miners, but finds their mercury legacy harder to erase

Brazil tackles illegal miners, but finds their mercury legacy harder to...

As the details of the humanitarian crisis in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory unfold amid action to remove illegal miners, mercury left by the rampant...
Nepal’s vultures, recovering from a poisoning crisis, fly into another

Nepal’s vultures, recovering from a poisoning crisis, fly into another

Poisoning continues to pose a serious threat to vultures in Nepal, where the birds’ population is only starting to recover from a massive plunge...
How we built a database of conflicts driven by Indonesia’s palm oil smallholder scheme

How we built a database of conflicts driven by Indonesia’s palm...

Mongabay, The Gecko Project and BBC News recently published a joint investigation which found that many Indonesian smallholders have lost their cut of the...
Woolies Water Fund

The Woolies Water Fund reaches 1 million litre milestone by providing...

It is critical to focus every day on the importance of having access to clean, sustainable water in SA, but March is particularly significant...
190 million children at risk from water-related crises: UNICEF

190 million children at risk from water-related crises: UNICEF

New York, USA, 20 March 2023-/African Media Agency(AMA)/A new analysis from the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, shows that some 190 million children in 10 African countries are...
In Sri Lanka and beyond, seagrass key to livelihoods, marine habitats

In Sri Lanka and beyond, seagrass key to livelihoods, marine habitats

Following a proposal from Sri Lanka, the United Nations declared March 1 as World Seagrass Day, recognizing their importance and creating awareness of this...
Fishy business of squid vessels needs stronger regulation, study says

Fishy business of squid vessels needs stronger regulation, study says

Experts are drawing attention to the unregulated nature of squid fishing, which they say could lead to the overexploitation of species, allow illegal fishing...
Loss of wetlands threatens South Sumatra’s rich fish-preserving tradition

Loss of wetlands threatens South Sumatra’s rich fish-preserving tradition

Rural communities in South Sumatra, an Indonesian province that’s two-fifths wetlands, have long relied on catching freshwater fish as a source of livelihood.The region...